AI & Cloud Leadership

Rachit Bhatia

Associate Director, AI & Cloud Solutions

AWS Certified AI Practitioner with 17+ years of experience turning emerging technology into measurable federal mission impact. Leading an AI and cloud practice at Guidehouse in support of the National Library of Medicine, NIH, pairing GenAI delivery with organizational leadership.

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AI and cloud leader with 17+ years of experience in Information Technology and Active Public Trust Clearance. Recently promoted to Associate Director, leading an AI and cloud practice at Guidehouse in support of a client relationship spanning back to 2013.

A hands-on leader who pairs GenAI delivery with organizational leadership, currently leading 8 direct reports and providing oversight of an additional 8-person team led by a direct report. Trusted advisor to executive stakeholders on generative AI, agentic architectures, responsible AI governance, enterprise AI solution architecture, and cloud modernization, with a track record of prototyping high-value AI use cases and driving them into practice.

Experience

2026 - Present

Associate Director

Guidehouse — National Library of Medicine, NIH

Leading an AI and cloud practice for one of the world's largest medical libraries, pairing GenAI delivery with organizational leadership.

  • Lead a team of 8 direct reports with oversight of an additional 8-person team
  • GenAI subject-matter expert advising the REAL-KG / NIH Knowledge Graph program on Amazon Bedrock models and architecture
  • Contributed technical writing to a winning proposal for a $65M contract award
2025 - 2026

Associate Principal

Guidehouse — National Library of Medicine, NIH

Continued AI and cloud leadership for the NLM engagement ahead of promotion to Associate Director.

2020 - 2025

Senior Cloud Architect (AWS/GenAI)

Guidehouse — National Library of Medicine, NIH

Architected cloud and GenAI solutions for one of the world's largest medical libraries.

  • Architected and automated GenAI solutions for NLM's DigiRepo and AccessGUDID, halving report-generation time
  • Migrated multiple on-premises applications to AWS, reducing downtime by 85%
2013 - 2020

Senior Linux Administrator

Medical Science & Computing LLC — NLM/NIH

Supported NLM/NIH federal health infrastructure, the predecessor engagement to the current Guidehouse relationship.

  • Managed Linux infrastructure for 100+ applications across DEV/QA/DR/PROD using Kickstart, Spacewalk, and Red Hat Satellite
  • Enforced configuration management with Puppet and Ansible, reducing configuration drift by 90% across ~400 servers
2012 - 2013

Linux Systems Administrator

Zappos

Automated Linux operations for a high-volume e-commerce LAMP environment, maintaining 99.9% uptime.

2010 - 2012

Production Support Engineer

Fannie Mae (Contractor)

Provided 24x7 production support for critical financial systems infrastructure.

2007 - 2010

Systems Administrator

SWIFT (Contractor)

Administered 150-200+ Solaris/AIX/HP-UX servers for the global financial messaging network.

Skills

Cloud & AWS

AWS EC2 S3 Lambda CloudFormation DynamoDB VPC IAM

DevOps & Automation

Ansible Puppet Bamboo Bitbucket Docker Infrastructure as Code

Languages

Python Bash Boto3 AWK C/C++

Systems

Linux/RHEL Amazon Linux Arch Linux/Omarchy FreeBSD OpenBSD

Tools

Git Splunk Nagios CloudCheckr Jira

GenAI & Agentic AI

Generative AI Agentic AI LangChain LangGraph RAG Knowledge Graphs Model Context Protocol SageMaker

AI Tools

Claude Code Codex Cursor AWS Bedrock DSPy Beads Pi GrokBot Muse

Certifications

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Active Public Trust Clearance

U.S. Government

Contact

Interested in discussing cloud architecture, AI solutions, or potential collaborations?